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Adam Ford
Adam Ford Reviews Rae White’s Milk Teeth and Anders Villani’s Aril Wire
Poetry debuts are not necessarily juvenilia. The vagaries of poetry publishing mean that by the time a poet’s first collection is published they often are, at least by some standards, emerging fully formed, able and ready to demonstrate their skill to a willing audience.
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Tagged Adam Ford, Anders Villani, Rae White
I’m Worried That My Increasingly Complex Shower Masturbation Routine is Unethical Because of The Amount of Water I Use
I use thirst as a guide to how much to drink. You absorb more toxins breathing in a hot shower than you do by drinking tap water all day. Evening seems fine. Nothing else has changed. I’m good now. The …
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Tagged Adam Ford
The Moon Is Not Talking to Us (after Adam Ford)
Posted in 43.1: PUMPKIN
Tagged Adam Ford, Gregory Mackay
The Moon is Not Talking to Us
The Moon is not talking to us. That light is light that the Sun shines on the Moon. We are simply eavesdropping. Moonlight is an echo, a reflection. It is pre-loved light. Nothing that comes from the Moon is intended …
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Adam Ford Reviews Thirty Australian Poets
Thirty Australian Poets (University of Queensland Press, 2011)
“Thirty Australian Poets is a new anthology out of UQP that focuses on the work of poets born after 1968. It’s an intriguing conceit that invites comparison with the work of the Generation of ’68 without actually issuing a challenge per se, but at least prompting a ‘look where we are now’ conversation. Since this constraint naturally excludes both poets who make up Australia’s vibrant live poetry scene (who tend not to be as widely published on the page) and also talented poets whose work may not have yet been collected, the poetry on offer does tend toward the formal.”
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Tagged Adam Ford, anthologies, Felicity Plunkett
Adam Ford Reviews Fiona Wright
Knuckled by Fiona Wright Giramondo Publishing, 2011 Knuckled is the debut collection from Fiona Wright, and can I just start by saying that ‘knuckled’ is a great title for a book of poems? It’s a word that’s easy to understand, …
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Tagged Adam Ford, Fiona Wright
Mea Culpa
In the morning all that’s left is a clutch of feathers by the watertank, another by the front gate and one more on the verge. The door of the chookshed stands open, the lock unfixed for more than six months, …
Posted in 35.0: OZ-KO (ENVOY)
Tagged Adam Ford
The Ern Malley Finger Puppet
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Tagged Adam Ford, children of malley, downloads, ern malley
Adam Ford reviews Joel Deane
Magisterium by Joel Deane Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008 Magisterium is the second collection by Joel Deane, following on from his debut collection Subterranean Radio Songs and his debut novel Another. In an interview with Paul Mitchell published in Cordite in …
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Tagged Adam Ford, Joel Deane
Adam Ford Reviews Alan Wearne
The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne Giramondo Publishing, 2008 It seems to me that a poem should – in general – be a self-contained unit, either easily understood or a puzzle that contains the key to its solution. I'm …
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Tagged Adam Ford, Alan Wearne
Adam Ford reviews Michael Farrell
Break Me Ouch by Michael Farrell 3deep Publishing, 2006 I've been puzzled by Michael Farrell's poetry for a long time. Sometimes I think I get it; but his writing is mercurial, and for every one of his poems that I've …
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Tagged Adam Ford, comics, michael farrell
Are You Searching For Me?
I've played about with rule-generated writing once in a while, trying to find something within the genre that resonates with me. Early last year I combined a section of text taken from a dinosaur book with the track-listing from Frank Zappa's Strictly Commercial and ended up with a prose-poem called “The Third Fruit is a Bird” that I'm really happy with.
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Tagged Adam Ford, flarf, search poetry
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